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You have two kidneys. They are fist-sized organs on either side of your backbone above your waist. The tubes inside filter and clean your blood, taking out waste products and making urine. Kidney cancer forms in the lining of tiny tubes inside your kidneys. It happens most often in people over 40. Risk factors include smoking, having certain genetic conditions and misusing pain medicines for a long time.
Often, kidney cancer doesn't have early symptoms. However, see your health care provider if you notice
Treatment depends on your age, your overall health and how advanced the cancer is. It might include surgery, radiation, chemotherapy or biologic therapy. Biologic therapy boosts your body's own ability to fight cancer.
National Cancer Institute
Kidney Cancer Vaccine Clinical Trial - Information about the use of Oncophage, an experimental vaccine treatment for this condition by the pharmaceutical firm, Antigenics.
AVI Biopharma, Inc. - Develops and commercializes a vaccine against human chorionic gonadotropin secreting cancers, and synthetic antisense technology to inhibit translation in treating cardiovascular, kidney and viral diseases. Research and manufacturing facilities in Corvallis, Oregon. (Nasdaq: AVII)
Genzyme Corp. - Products targeted on rare inherited disorders, kidney disease, orthopaedics, transplant and immune disease, cancer, and diagnostic testing. Includes links to global subsidiaries, headquartered from Cambridge, Massachusetts (Nasdaq: GENZ)
Steve Dunn's Kidney Cancer Page - Comprehensive information from a survivor especially oriented to treatment options, with links to discussion groups.
UrologyChannel: Kidney Cancer - Gives summary information on an number of topics including risk factors, diagnosis, staging and treatment.
NCI: Kidney Cancer - Resource of the U.S. National Cancer Institute which touches on some of the less common manifestations of the disease.
MEDLINEplus: Kidney Cancer - Links format topics provided by the U.S. National Library of Medicine.
Cancer Group Institute: Kidney Cancer - Basic general information is provided in a fact sheet type format.
Understanding cancer of the kidney - Online booklet from the UK organization CancerBACUP addresses such topics as symptoms, diagnosis and treatment.
Ellis Fischel Cancer Center: Renal Cell Carcinoma - Summary information about kidney cancer provided by this University of Missouri resource in a fact sheet format.